Adherents.com: Religious Groups in Literature

34,420 citations from literature (mostly science fiction and fantasy) referring to real churches, religious groups, tribes, etc. [This database is for literary research only. It is not intended as a source of information about religion.]

Better Ross: "Steve Rogers' quarters were breached? Who do they think were behind it, Bruce; the Arabs or the Chinese? "; Bruce Banner: "Actually, he reckons it was a bunch of kids who live across the street and he's heading over to kick their butts right now, Betty. "

Chinese

New York: New York City

2015

Pohl, Frederik. The Years of the City. New York: Timescape (1984); pg. 41.

"'...Everyone can watch. At the same time, AM radio stations are assigned to provide simultaneous translation in Spanish, Japanese, Yiddish, Chinese, Italian, and whatever other languages have a large enough constituency in the city to justify their use...' "

Chinese

New York: New York City

2015

Pohl, Frederik. The Years of the City. New York: Timescape (1984); pg. 47.

Pohl, Frederik. The Years of the City. New York: Timescape (1984); pg. 69.

"...and the audio goes by telephone to the simultaneous translators--we've got eight of them, including Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. "

Chinese

New York: New York City

2150

McHugh, Maureen F. China Mountain Zhang. New York: Tor (1992)

[Book jacket] "What if Chinese Marxism, not Western capitalism, came to dominate the globe? In this dazzling and insightful novel... explores that fascinating possibility... China Mountain Zhang is your everyday, hardworking New Yorker, except he looks Chinese, which in a Sinocentric world gives him an edge. He works as a construction tech in this broken-down backwater, but he dreams of visiting China, the opulent pinnacle of the Revolution. Still, he hangs out in downtown bars... races over Greenwich Village--until his Chinese boss tries to fix him up with his strange, sheltered daughter... and young students who dare to entertain the lethal possibility that Marx was wrong... He'll learn that within a bureaucracy where the individual bows to the will of the many, freedom can only be found by slipping through the cracks... " [Chinese culture and Marxism are central throughout entire novel. Other refs. not in DB.]

"'...Then the, uh, conciliar Europe of 1900. That was scientific-industrial too, maybe more successfully--or less unsuccessfully--on account of having kept a strong, unified Church, though it was coming apart at last. Then the Chinese-American--not scientific, very religious, but destined to produce considerable technology in its own time of troubles.' "

"All around him, the other worlds sheaved away in layers of gray mist. There were worlds in which the Chinese had colonized North and South America... "

Chinese

North America

2150

Anderson, Poul. Genesis. New York: Tor (2000); pg. 198.

"A procession went upon it. An elephant led, as richly caparisoned as the man under the silk awning of a howdah. Shaven-headed men in yellow robes walked after, flanked by horsemen who bore poles from which pennons streamed scarlet and gold. The sound of slowly beaten gongs and minor-key chanting came faint through the wind... Yes, the appearance was quite Chinese, or Chinese-derived, except that a number of the individuals he studied had more of an Amerindian countenance and the leader on the elephant wore a feather bonnet above his robe.

...'You are a height of the Great Tranquility' the amulet voice answered.

'How many like that were there ever?' Christian wondered. 'Where, when, how?'

'You are in North America, in the twenty-second century by your reckoning. Chinese navigators arrived on the Pacific shore seven hundred years ago, and colonists followed.' "

Chinese

North America

2150

Anderson, Poul. Genesis. New York: Tor (2000); pg. 198.

[No. American settled by Chinese.] "'Given the distance to sail and the dangers, the process was slow,' the voice went on. 'While the newcomers displaced or subjugated the natives wherever they settled, most remained free for a long time, acquired the technology, and also developed resistance to introduced diseases. Eventually, being on roughly equal terms, the races began to mingle, genetically and culturally. The settlers mitigated the savagery of the religions they had encountered, but learned from the societies as well as teaching. You behold the outcome.'

'The Way of the Buddha?' Laurinda asked very softly.

'As influenced by Taoism and local nature cults. It is a harmonious faith, without sects or heresies, pervading the civilization.'

'Everything can't be pure loving kindness,' Christian said.

'Certainly not. But the peace that the Emperor Wei Zhi-fu brought about has lasted for a century and will for another two..' " [More, not in DB.]

Chinese

North America

2150

Anderson, Poul. Genesis. New York: Tor (2000); pg. 199.

[No. American settled by Chinese.] "'...If you travel, you will find superb achievements in the arts and in graciousness.'

'No,' said the presence. 'Their genius lies in other realms. But the era of warfare to come will drive the development of a remarkable empirical technology.'

'What era?'

'China never recognized the independence that this country proclaimed for itself, nor approved of its miscegenation. A militant dynasty will arise, which overruns a western hemisphere weakened by the religious and secular quarrels that do at least break out.'

'And the conquerors will fall in their turn. Unless Gaia makes an end first...' "

"'You could if you controlled television. Listen, I've seen things that could practically fry your brains. Did you know that there are Communist Chinese troops in North Dakota? The entire state I sunder occupational rule! They've got concentration camps and slave labor and...' "

"Daynia Wong glanced up from a long table at the back of the room, where she sat with three graduate students recording technical data from a mound of artifacts. Dr. Wong was old, but like most orientals, she didn't show it. The corners of her eyes crinkled with mild concern... Dr. Wong spoke. She was like a nodding Buddha, her eyes pinched off to nothing, her face relaxed into an imperishable smile. " [Other refs., not in DB.]

Pg. 21: "...bearing down with the scrub brush on one of the Chinese dragon bowls she'd bought in Chinatown. "; Pg. 29: "'...You know, I learned to eat Cantonese and Szechuan in college. Just never got around to Japanese.' "; Pg. 46: "...back to the hotel to shower, followed by cheap Chinese food on Spadina Avenue... "; Pg. 75: "Chinese restaurant "; Pg. 60: Chinatown (also pg. 94); Pg. 137: "...seemed to unfold a Chinese puzzle of increasingly complex questions. "

Chinese

Ontario: Toronto

1991

Huff, Tanya. Blood Price. New York: DAW Books (1991); pg. 58.

Pg. 58: "'...He still teaches English as a Second Language at the Chinese Community Center.' "; Pg. 138: "He'd bought six inches of the eighteen karat gold chain at a store in Chinatown. "

Chinese

Ontario: Toronto

1992

Huff, Tanya. Blood Trail. New York: DAW Books (1992); pg. 39.

"Dundas and Huron crossed in the center of Chinatown, surrounded by restaurants and tiny markets selling exotic vegetables and live fish. In hot weather, the metal bins of food garbage heated up and the stench that permeated the area was anything but appetizing. "

Chinese

Ontario: Toronto

2000

Sawyer, Robert J. Calculating God. New York: Tor (2000); pg. 163.

"...Even after my trips to China, I was still one of those who always had to ask for a knife and fork in a Chinese restaurant. "

"She grinned, remembering the unusual spectacle of the rather staid, pedantic astronomer, Xi Chi Yuen, flushed with excitement and dancing about the bridge. " [Other refs. not in DB.]

Chinese

Phaze

2980

Anthony, Piers. Split Infinity. New York: Ballantine (1980); pg. 281.

Pg. 281: "He was versed in all forms of that game: the western-Earth two and three-dimensional variants, the Chinese Choohong-ki, Japanese Shogi, Indian Chaturanga and the hypermodern developments. Stile could not match him there. He had a better chance with the single-piece board games like Chinese Checkers and its variants--but many games used the same boards as chess, and this grid classified them by their boards. "; Pg. 282: "This time it came up Go--the ancient Chinese game of enclosing. It was perhaps the oldest of all games in the human sphere, dating back several thousand years. It was one of the simplest in basic concept: placing... " [More.]

"A small man waited patiently in the gate. He wore a silky golden robe that pooled in liquid folds under his feet... The small man nodded. A wispy black beard hung to his chest, and his features were at least in part Oriental... 'I am Lin Piao Tai. What may I do for you?' " [Many other refs., not in DB, to this character, who is not explicitly identified as Chinese, but has a Chinese name.]

Pg. 174: "...a young Chinese actress with high-piled hair and a gold chiton...

His name was Kim Swee Lok--or Lok Kim Swee, to his fellow ethnic Chinese. "; Pg. 175: "Thousands of smiling, neatly dressed Chinese and Malays and Tamils--all singing in English. " [Many other refs. to Chinese people, not in DB, in this section of the novel, which takes place in Singapore.]

[Aboard space station.] Pg. 51: "The picturesque booths were only a few yards from a barrier with two entrances labeled WELCOME TO THE U.S. SECTION and WELCOME TO TH SOVIET SECTION. Beneath these were notices which read, in English, Russian, and Chinese, French, German, and Spanish. "; Pg. 59: "For a moment he thought that he was in the middle of some dimly lit Chinese lantern; the faint glow from the other cubicles around him gave that impression. "

Pg. 44: "'It's an ill wind--if our Chinese friends hadn't jumped the gun on us...' "; Pg. 54: "All the scanty news of the Chinese mission had to be relayed from Earth... But, in a few hours, the Chinese had learned more about Europa than all the previous missions combined... " [Many other refs. not in DB, e.g. pg. 46-58, 81, etc.]

"Captain Peter Y'ang-Yeovil of Central Intelligence was a lineal descendant of the learned Mencius and belonged to the Intelligence Tong of the Inner Planets Armed Forces. For two hundred years the IPAF had entrusted its intelligence work to the Chinese who, with a five thousand-year history of cultivating subtlety behind them, had achieved wonders. Captain Y'ang-Yeovil was a member of the dreaded Society of Paper Men, an adept of the Tientsin Image Makers, a Master of Superstition, and fluent in the Secret Speech. He did not look Chinese.

...'Are we related anywhere within fifteen degrees of consanguinity?' he asked Bunny in the Mandarin dialect. 'I am of the house f the learned Meng-Tse whom the barbarians call Mencius.'

'Then we are hereditary enemies,' Bunny answered in faltering Mandarin. 'For the formidable ancestor of my line was deposed as governor of Shan-tung in 342 B.C. by the earth pig Meng-Tse.' " [More about these characters, not in DB.]

Pg. 220: "Chinese carry-out the two had eaten while standing by the light table "; Pg. 392: "...nibbling on Chinese food he had paid one of the young members to bring back. "; Pg. 874: "...watching Teri's old movies on the VCR that night and driving up the coast for Chinese about midnight. "

"but when I had them piped in, they turned out to be in pre-Hegira Chinese. This was a shock. I had never been on a world where the majority of humans spoke anything but a version of Web English. " [Many other refs., not in DB. See also pg. 304.]

"At the point of learning Chinese he experienced, for the first time, a synapse. For the sake of reading marginally relevant writings by fewer than ten Sino-Japanese Judaic poets it was not worth learning their vast languages... "

"...it was so obviously phony; as for instance whose pictures appeared on it? President Johnson? Stalin? No; the Gany had dipped into history and come up with full-face steel-engraved portraits of such freaks as Kant and Socrates and Hume and old-time non-heroes like that. For instance, the ten dollar General Douglas MacArthur bill; in another month it would be gone entirely. And in its place somebody named Li Po, some sort of antique Chinese poet. It made a man blurk just to think about it. "

"'...Even with advance warning, we [Thailand] can't prevail against China in the field of battle. China's supply lines into Thailand would be short. Almost a quarter of the population of Thailand is Chinese in origin, and while most of them are loyal Thai citizens, a large fraction of them still regard China as their homeland. China would not lack for saboteurs and collaborators within our country...' "

Pg. 297: "...she's in Bangkok... "; Pg. 298: "She figures it out... the struggling mob on the Chinatown waterfront had been Thais, attacking Indian and Chinese shops; the Indians, Bangalas, Pakistanis, and Chinese seem to have gotten together enough to mount a counterattack, and they are fighting their way across the bridge into downtown. " [Other refs. not in DB.]

Chinese

Tibet

1999

Pattison, Eliot. The Skull Mantra. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur (1999), book jacket.

[Book jacket.] "When a headless corpse is found by a prison work gang on a windy Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun might seem the perfect man to solve the crime--except Shan himself is in that very Tibetan prison for offending the Party in Beijing. Desperate to close the case before an American tourist delegation arrives, the district commander has no choice but to grant a temporary release from prison to the brilliant and embittered Shan, while confronting him with an ultimatum: solve the case fast and in a politically expedient fashion or the Tibetan priests in Shan's work brigade will be punished. " [Clearly, there are Chinese refs. throughout novel. No other refs. added to DB.]

"For a time he worked as an interpreter for the Chinese... and the person we chose to play commandant, the former Chinese freedom fighter, Nyima Wu, was all too adept as an autocrat. " [Many refs. throughout novel, which takes place primarily in Tibet.]

"I am the Gyatso Rimpoche, the voice answered. The eighteenth reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. I am traveling the Bardo in search of my next reincarnation. I've looked everywhere on earth, but I've had no luck, and I decided to look somewhere new. Tibet is still under the thumb of the Chinese, and they show no signs of letting up. The Chinese, although I love them dearly, are hard bastards. And the other governments of the world long ago turned their backs on Tibet. So no one will challenge the Chinese. Something needs to be done. So I came to Mars. "

Pg. 85: "What was the Prime Minister thinking about, cutting the country's defences to the bone? A little friendly chitchat between the Yanks and the Chinese didn't suddenly make the world a safe place. It was imperative that Britain maintained a strong armed response. " Pg. 197: "...a gigantic creature rocketed from the marsh, teetering over Jo and Noah's cowering forms like some hideous Chinese dragon. Its massive tail was segmented... "

"He was a small, dark-haired man in a white jacket, with a diamond-shaped, completely expressionless face which might have been that of a Chinese. "

Chinese

United Kingdom

1988

Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. New York: Simon and Schuster (1988); pg. 104.

"These were unusual texts to see marching across the display of a pocket calculator, particularly as they had been translated from the Chinese via the Japanese and seemed to have enjoyed many adventures on the way. "

"'The Chinese system. No, I am convinced it must be something far more efficient. English is spoken with only a trifle more than sixty sounds; even the longest words are created by combining and recombining these...' "

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